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Amazon Elastic Block Store

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Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) provides raw block devices that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances. These block devices can then be used like any raw block device. In a typical use case, this would include formatting the device with a filesystem and mounting said filesystem. In addition EBS supports a number of advanced storage features, including snapshotting and cloning. Currently[when?] EBS volumes can be up to 1TB in size. EBS volumes are built on replicated back end storage, so that the failure of a single component will not cause data loss.

The EBS product was introduced to the general public by Amazon in August 2008.[1]

On October 22, 2012, an Amazon EBS server in Northern Virginia became unavailable, making Reddit, Imgur and other websites unavailable as well.[2] By December 2012, a snapshot copy feature aided availability by allowing for redundancy across regions.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data". Amazon Web Services Blog. August 20, 2008. Archived from the original on March 28, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Brandon Butler (October 22, 2012). "Amazon EBS failure brings down Reddit, Imgur, others". Network World. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
  3. ^ Brandon Butler (December 18, 2012). "Amazon allows users to spread workloads more broadly now". Network World. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
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